Today’s Top 5 From Purdue University

Purdue professor, Perseverance member preparing for year 2 as rover mission reaches landing anniversary

A year of helping direct the Perseverance rover across the Mars terrain has Briony Horgan, Purdue associate professor of planetary science, and the rover team on the doorstep of the mission goal.

Media contact: Brian Huchel, bhuchel@purdue.edu

Purdue hypersonics combines industry, academia in new materials and manufacturing center

Purdue will expand its hub of hypersonics research with the addition of a center focused on developing high-temperature materials and creating new manufacturing processes to build and join these materials, which will extend hypersonic vehicles’ capabilities and apply to other industries.

Media contact: Brian Huchel, bhuchel@purdue.edu

The brain’s secret to lifelong learning can now come as hardware for artificial intelligence

Shriram Ramanathan, a Purdue professor of materials engineering, is investigating ways to build artificial intelligence directly into hardware.

Media contact: Kayla Wiles, wiles5@purdue.edu

First-of-its-kind estimate of the total number of tree species

A team of scientists co-led by Jingjing Liang, assistant professor of quantitative forest ecology, has created the first data estimate of the total number of tree species on Earth – 73,300 with over 9,000 species yet to be discovered.

Media contact: Maureen Manier, mmanier@purdue.edu

Purdue Engineering faculty members elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Three Purdue faculty members leading the way in engineering excellence – Gary Cheng, Karl Smith and John Sutherland – have been elected to the distinction of Fellow by the world’s largest general scientific society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Media contact: Kayla Wiles, wiles5@purdue.edu

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